time: add ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ
authorJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:42:19 +0000 (20:42 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:42:19 +0000 (20:42 +0100)
commit52bfb36050c8529d9031d2c2513b281a360922ec
tree7d116ece2ed21b8319e800efc0c2fd70818f01d3
parent8232fd625217dc641ed05dd238a8bb5c82828082
time: add ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ

Michael Kerrisk reported that a long standing bug in the adjtimex()
system call causes glibc's adjtime(3) function to deliver the wrong
results if 'delta' is NULL.

add the ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ API detail, which will be used by glibc
to fix this API compatibility bug.

Also see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761

[ mingo@elte.hu: added patch description and made it backwards compatible ]

NOTE: the new flag is defined 0xa001 so that it returns -EINVAL on
older kernels - this way glibc can use it safely. Suggested by Ulrich
Drepper.

Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
include/linux/timex.h
kernel/time/ntp.c